I stayed on the boat until nine fifteen and then walked into town to collect my post from P.O.Box 36...a monthly statement from Adams of Rye...my February payment of £40 had been duly registered...£80 to go. At the library the business of the day was to send a letter to Connie's cousin Ilona Price inviting her to be a trustee of the David Martin Hutchings Trust. Here is the text. 'I would like to invite you to be one of four trustees for the David Martin Hutchings Trust. I am charged with two obligations under the terms of Connie’s will: Fiduciary responsibility for David’s beneficiary assets from the Connie Lindqvist Estate and Executor of Connie’s artistic and literary estate. I am now setting up the necessary legal structures to permit me to meet these obligations.

My target date for the completion of these arrangements is 16th April 2006. I met on Monday 20th February 2006 with Walker & Walker at their offices in Sevenoaks. Brian Walker has agreed to prepare draft documents for two trusts: David Martin Hutchings Trust; Connie Lindqvist Trust. The current proposal is for me to settle the following assets on David’s trust: m/s Vemara; Provident Accident Claim; Good Yacht Guide Business. Attached please find a copy of the minutes of my 20/2-2006 meeting.I would welcome involvement of trustees in (1) development of the trust purpose (2) specification of the terms and conditions for the trust (3) negotiating details of the terms and conditions of settlement. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you wish to discuss matters further at this time.'

A little after midday I returned to the moorings on the Rye Harbour Road and lit the fire. Outside a gang of men and machines were feverishly demolishing my sloe bushes and white hawthorn trees...new source of berries for my sloe gin required for next Christmas. Nobody seems to know what or why this is happening but the assumption is that it is the preparatory work for hammering in pilings on our side of the river...the other side was piled last year.

All this frantic work is part of a big spend inflicted on the public purse by the private insurance companies who have persuaded the politicians that the country will be flooded by global warming sea-level rises so the realm must be protected by hundreds of public works all around the country. Future generations will find that this was one of the biggest scams of the century.

Last time I looked...about a year ago...there was no scientific evidence of changes in sea levels. There is a lot of noisy chatter about the Arctic but the Antarctic has nearly all the unmelted water so is the only area needing careful watching...and here the evidence goes both ways suggesting just the normal fluctuations in local weather systems. Then there is the temperature curve for the last six million years…see below. This shows a three-million year period when it was several degrees warmer than today followed by a three-million year cooling trend accompanied by an increase in the magnitude of the pervasive higher frequency cold and warm climate cycles.

When people talk about the world being run by computers they are right. But they are quite wrong about the details. Computers run the world by falsely modelling the future. Academics in their ivory towers invent new fears which they then impose upon an increasingly gullible public by producing computer models that forecast dire consequences from their self-fulfilling theories. There should be a warning on all academic research. CAUTION: This research is based on computer modelling.

In the evening we had our last practice before the big event at the weekend. It went well. If you haven't bought your tickets yet for the Ryesingers performance of Iolanthe by Gilbert & Sullivan, do so immediately. To bed by ten.